Vocabulary
What is the most holy text of Islam?
Qur'an.
What is the Muslim chief ruler called?
A caliph
What system was borrowed from India?
The number system
What was an important factor of the spread of Islam culture?
Military Conquest.
Who over threw the Umayyads?
The Abbasids
Who is the prophet and founder of Islam?
Muhammad.
About 85% of Muslims are from which branch of Islam?
Sunni
What is a method to solve math?
Algebra
What is believe that Muhammad is known as?
Prophet.
The first caliph, a friend of Muhammad and father-in law
Abu Bakr
What is the holy shrine of Islam?
Kaaba.
How many countries follow the sharia law?
15
What were scholars called that were able to separate compounds?
Chemists
What is a pattern design discovered by Muslims?
Mosaic.
The Islamic rule lasted how many years in Spain?
About over 700 years
What is the Arabic word for god in Islam?
Allah.
How many chapters in the Quar'an?
114
Sulfur, mercury and gold is need to make what mixture?
Metals
What merchant activity expanded the Islamic empire?
Trading.
The Abbasid's moved the capital where?
Baghdad
What is the most spoke language in Islam?
Arabic.
What is the name of a Muslim leader of prayer?
Imam
What is a system used to cash checks?
Banks
Who invented the study of algebra?
Mathematician Al-Khwarizmi.
Who brought the end to the Abbasid Caliphate?
Mongols